Almost every creator email scraper on Apify does one platform. dataovercoffee/Youtube-Channel-Business-Email-Scraper is the most used (3,644 users) and reads the login-gated email button, at $120 per 1,000. flash_scraper/creator-leads-scraper is the only Actor in this comparison covering TikTok, Instagram and YouTube in one 51-column schema, at $2 per 1,000.
Every figure below was read from Apify's public Store API on 2026-09-05. Prices here vary by a factor of sixty, so read the Pricing tab before you run anything.
Disclosure: I publish flash_scraper/creator-leads-scraper, one of the actors compared here. Its two biggest limitations are stated below, and one of them is a hard no for influencer discovery on TikTok and Instagram.
Why the prices differ by 60x
Two different products are sold under the same words. One reads what a creator published in public (About text, bio, linked website) and charges cents. The other uses logged-in accounts and CAPTCHA solving to reveal the address behind YouTube's "View email address" button, which is gated by a Google login and a daily reveal quota, and charges dollars. The second returns more emails and carries account and terms-of-service exposure the first does not.
The comparison table
| Actor | Users | Rating (reviews) | Price per 1,000 | Platforms and coverage | What to watch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dataovercoffee/Youtube-Channel-Business-Email-Scraper | 3,644 | 4.40 (30) | $120.00 per 1,000 emails | YouTube, using logged-in accounts and CAPTCHA solving to reach the gated address | Plus a $280 per 1,000 force-fresh-scrape surcharge; highest price here, and the only one whose listing claims it reaches the login-gated address |
| exporter24/youtube-email-bulk-scraper | 964 | 5.0 (3) | $30.00 per 1,000 results | YouTube channel emails from public data | Listing names no keyword discovery, so bring your own channel list |
| lurkapi/youtube-channel-email-scraper | 644 | 5.0 (3) | $5.00 per 1,000 emails found | YouTube About pages: business emails, contact info, social links; accepts @handles, URLs or IDs | Keyword discovery is billed at $0.05 per search query and validation at $1 per 1,000; a discovery-heavy run costs far more than the headline |
| automation-lab/youtube-channel-email-scraper | 203 | none yet (0) | $2.30 per 1,000 channels | YouTube About pages: emails, subscriber counts, video counts, all linked socials, no proxy needed | Emails found are billed again at $23 per 1,000, plus a $0.005 run start |
| haketa/youtube-contact-scraper | 92 | 5.0 (1) | $3.00 per 1,000 results | YouTube keyword search or channel URLs: name, subscribers, views, country, business email, website, all socials | Cheapest keyword-driven YouTube option here; one review |
| afanasenko/instagram-influencer-search | 78 | none yet (0) | $10.00 per 1,000 profiles | Instagram hashtag and keyword discovery with follower range, minimum engagement rate, emails, phone, bio links, business category, Reels views | The only real Instagram discovery option in this comparison |
| funny_ground/tiktok-influencer-finder | 6 | none yet (0) | $5.00 per 1,000 results | TikTok niche search with country, language and follower filters, exporting only profiles with a public contact | Only TikTok keyword-search actor here; six users |
| flash_scraper/creator-leads-scraper | 16 | 5.0 (2) | $2.00 per 1,000 leads | TikTok, Instagram and YouTube in one run, 51 identical columns, MX-verified email, 0-100 lead score, only-new monitoring | No TikTok or Instagram keyword search (handles only). Optional AI cold opener is a second $2 per 1,000 event |
When to pick which
Pick dataovercoffee if reveal rate is the only thing that matters and the budget is real. It is the most used and most reviewed of the creator email actors a Store search surfaced on 2026-09-05, 30,093 of 30,390 runs succeeded in the 30 days to 2026-09-05, and its listing is the only one here that claims the address keyless scrapers cannot reach. At $0.12 per email, 1,000 addresses is $120, and the force-fresh surcharge can take a run to $400 per 1,000.
Pick haketa/youtube-contact-scraper for cheap YouTube discovery. Keyword search plus contact details at $3 per 1,000 is the best value in the YouTube-only column, and 3,908 of 3,934 runs succeeded in the 30 days to 2026-09-05.
Pick lurkapi if you already have the channel list. Paying only for emails actually found ($0.005 each) is the fairest structure here for enrichment work. The $0.05 per search query makes it expensive for discovery, so use it as an enricher, not a finder.
Pick afanasenko/instagram-influencer-search for Instagram discovery. Nothing else in this comparison does it, and engagement rate plus follower range is exactly what influencer-marketing buyers filter on.
Pick funny_ground/tiktok-influencer-finder to find TikTok creators by niche rather than enrich handles you already have. Six users means unproven, so test small.
Pick flash_scraper/creator-leads-scraper when you already have handles across more than one platform and want one spreadsheet rather than three. Every row has the same 51 columns whichever platform it came from, every email is MX-verified with a status, and filters run before billing. onlyNewCreators on a schedule delivers only creators that appeared since the last run. At $0.002 per lead it is the cheapest per row here — 1.15x under the next cheapest headline rate ($2.30 per 1,000, automation-lab, which then bills emails found again at $23 per 1,000 on top) and 60x under the most used ($120).
What ours does not do, stated plainly
There is no TikTok or Instagram keyword or hashtag search. For those two platforms you supply usernames and the actor enriches them. YouTube is the only discovery platform: a keyword search returns roughly 30 channels, and their published links then give you TikTok and Instagram handles to feed back in. If your job is "find me TikTok beauty creators in Spain with 50k followers", this actor cannot start that job, and funny_ground or afanasenko can.
It does not read the email behind YouTube's "View email address" button. That button needs a Google login, a reCAPTCHA and a daily reveal quota. This actor stays keyless and logged out, so YouTube emails come from About text, published channel links and the linked website instead. That is the whole reason it costs $2 per 1,000 and dataovercoffee costs $120.
Email fill is a fraction, measured on small samples. In the 2026-08-09 verification runs, all after website enrichment: 6 of 9 YouTube channels on one keyword and 4 of 8 on a second, 3 of 9 TikTok creators, 1 of 5 Instagram creators. Read those as an order of magnitude, not a guarantee. Most addresses come from the creator's linked website, not the bio: a standalone measurement found an email in the TikTok bio itself on 1 of 28 profiles.
Instagram delivers partially at volume. Measured off-platform on 2026-09-03, Instagram's JSON endpoint refused every residential exit for 12 of 12 handles while the public profile page served 16 of 16 on the same exits, so the actor falls back to the page. A handle refused on both paths is reported by name and never billed.
No phone numbers, and no engagement rate outside Instagram. And 16 users with 2 reviews is a small footprint next to 3,644.
What a real run costs
At $0.002 per creator lead, 1,000 leads is $2.00 and a 30-lead test is $0.06. maxCreators counts creators delivered, not scraped: filters run before the count, and with an email filter set the run keeps discovering in up to three extra waves. Filtered-out, blocked and nonexistent handles are never billed. The AI cold opener is opt-in at a second $0.002 per row.
Short answers
Can I find a TikTok or Instagram creator's email by username? Yes, on flash_scraper/creator-leads-scraper, lurkapi (YouTube), automation-lab (YouTube) and the enrichment mode of the TikTok actors. It works only when the creator published an address somewhere public, usually on their linked website rather than in the bio. In the 2026-08-09 measurements that was 3 of 9 TikTok creators and 1 of 5 Instagram creators.
What percentage of creators actually have a public email? Between roughly a fifth and two thirds, depending on platform and keyword, on the measurements above. Any actor promising a full sheet of verified influencer emails from a keyless, logged-out scrape is describing something the public data does not contain.
Which actor covers all three platforms in one run? As read on 2026-09-05, flash_scraper/creator-leads-scraper is the only one in this comparison whose listing names TikTok, Instagram and YouTube with one output schema. The trade for that breadth is the missing TikTok and Instagram keyword search.
Data source: Apify public Store API, read 2026-09-05. Author: Flash Scrape (flash_scraper on Apify), publisher of one of the actors listed. Corrections welcome.
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